For the third consecutive day on Saturday, the hill temple of Lord Venkateswara reeled under the impact of heavy crowds.
The surge in the pilgrim crowds was so intense that the waiting time for those in Sarva darshan queue shot up to 48 hours.
The darshan lines stretched to over four km on to the road outside the Vaikuntam complex as tens of thousands of devotees, particularly from neighboring Tamil Nadu, flocked the town for darshan of the deity.
